The last few weeks we kept getting sick in the Housman family. I recall a blur from two weekends ago when people came over but I was dizzy throughout the weekend. Last week was worse than the one before since we caught the inexorable vomiting sickness. Madeline awoke on Tuesday night to surprise me with a sudden vomiting spell that led to a sheet and bedding replacement extravaganza. I spoke to two or three people around work who mentioned their kids had also gotten this illness so I figured that it was limited to the younger generation. But on Thursday night Sarah was ill with the same symptoms. So I cancelled work on friday to take care of her. So I figured that only women and children would fall victim to this vomiting flu. But by 9 PM on Friday I was on my knees sick. Oddly it was great to take the three day weekend with Madeline, Zachary and Sarah regardless. I enjoyed spending time with them.

By Sunday we were on the road to recovery but still cautious about eating any real food. Since it was easter I snapped a few hundred photos trying to capture Madeline's outfit and other various Easter occasions. Madeline loved hunting for eggs and despite only having 24 plastic eggs I think she found about 100 due to some creative re-hiding after she had filled her basket. We have been playing a dysfunctional game of hide and seek lately where Madeline hides in very obvious places like lying down next to a radiator but she loves the idea of hide and seek. She is good at hiding in her closet low on the floor under a shelf but that doesn't stop her from selecting the hiding places where she is in plain view. So I get to tune my acting skills multiple times per session to look for her in all of the places where she isn't. It is quite fun. Zachary is fighting the transition from breast to bottle. I felt like we were torturing a captured enemy into telling us the location of the big guns on the hill as he screamed in discontent from the bottle feeding experiment this evening. Hopefully it will get better since we are in need of some alternatives to Sarah always being 10 feet away from Zachary when he is hungry.